Egypt reaches reconciliation deal with Mubarak-era figures

Egypt has had returned around $174 million in cash and land after the government reached a reconciliation deal with former ministers and businessmen who served or were prominent under deposed president Hosni Mubarak.

Among the figures that have settled their disputes with the Egyptian government is Amr Assal, former chief of Egypt’s Industrial Development Authority, Mustafa Al-Husseini, attorney general of the Public Funds Prosecution told Al-Ahram.

Earlier this month, Minister of Finance El-Morsi Hegazi said that two new bank accounts at the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE)[4] have been opened for retrieved funds, whether from abroad or after reconciliation initiatives.